Short boxes killing property prices

By Bill Ray

Posted in Mobile, 1st September 2009 14:25 GMT

Residents are suing the Long Island town of Hempstead for allowing the installation of cell phone antennae, on the basis that it's lowering the value of their properties.

The claim is not regarding the potential health risks, as has been the case before, but that the local authority has been negligent in preventing brown boxes being fitted to telegraph poles without allowing for the inevitable reduction in property values that would result.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/01/long_island_phone_masts/